Too much damp
Despite my pretentious post about FEAR, when I actually went to Do Stuff I found that, while I had been cautious, my energy wasn't too hot either! *sigh*
Naturally, when I went to the hospital a couple of weeks later for my checkup, the steady flow of tiredness made me terrified of what would come out. Despite the lack of sleep, my lung function came out only partially down on my previous good results. Not lungs then causing the tiredness.
Actupuncture two days later suggested damp spleen leading to heat in the lungs. And I think he was right about the spleen, because taking 22 to heat it up seemed to help, balanced by 23 to rehydrate (and by doing so cool) the lungs. Then the rain came (and kept tipping down) which of course brought more damp and while I prevaricated on taking too much 22, my spleen got damp again. Go me.
A month later and I'm diagnosed with a damp spleen again, although no heat this time. Rather deficiency in the lungs and excess in the kidneys. I also phoned the hospital, who were once more meant to give me my IGe results and failed. They are high but not hospital-worrying high. With all this in mind, I'm taking 22 again for the spleen, and 19 as an anti-inflammatory and tonic. Further batches have been tweaked to include a mild antibiotic function.
Just for further confusion, I had what appeared to be a temperature last night that hopefully has broken a minor bug. Nothing to push anyone off work, just enough to deplete extra energy.
Despite my overall health being good, I am not happy about the continuous lack of energy and have a horrible feeling it hasn't been helped by not doing tai chi for most of this year. (I'm due to rejoin a group about a year behind where I left so I'm not completely behind; I've missed most of the yang long form, the fan work and stick work; it's one reason I kept missing it - I might have had the energy to return, but not to play so much catch-up.)
Naturally, when I went to the hospital a couple of weeks later for my checkup, the steady flow of tiredness made me terrified of what would come out. Despite the lack of sleep, my lung function came out only partially down on my previous good results. Not lungs then causing the tiredness.
Actupuncture two days later suggested damp spleen leading to heat in the lungs. And I think he was right about the spleen, because taking 22 to heat it up seemed to help, balanced by 23 to rehydrate (and by doing so cool) the lungs. Then the rain came (and kept tipping down) which of course brought more damp and while I prevaricated on taking too much 22, my spleen got damp again. Go me.
A month later and I'm diagnosed with a damp spleen again, although no heat this time. Rather deficiency in the lungs and excess in the kidneys. I also phoned the hospital, who were once more meant to give me my IGe results and failed. They are high but not hospital-worrying high. With all this in mind, I'm taking 22 again for the spleen, and 19 as an anti-inflammatory and tonic. Further batches have been tweaked to include a mild antibiotic function.
Just for further confusion, I had what appeared to be a temperature last night that hopefully has broken a minor bug. Nothing to push anyone off work, just enough to deplete extra energy.
Despite my overall health being good, I am not happy about the continuous lack of energy and have a horrible feeling it hasn't been helped by not doing tai chi for most of this year. (I'm due to rejoin a group about a year behind where I left so I'm not completely behind; I've missed most of the yang long form, the fan work and stick work; it's one reason I kept missing it - I might have had the energy to return, but not to play so much catch-up.)